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(2021-07-13)This dissertation explores stage management’s failed attempts at professionalization in the early twentieth century. Using Harold L. Wilensky’s theory of professionalization as a means of comparison, I investigate the ways ...
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(2021-04-15)Richard Strauss remains one of the most recognized and performed opera composers of the twentieth century. Considerations of staging practices have been part of Strauss historiography since the early twentieth century, yet ...
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(2020-12-02)Intimacy direction is a radical new vision for the performing arts, calling all practitioners to implement consent as a creative practice. Methods for staging intimacy have shifted over time to match changing cultural ...
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(2018-08-06)This dissertation investigates the engagement between American theatre and sound reproduction technologies in the 1970s. Through an analysis of Abe Jacob’s sound design for Broadway and productions created by experimental ...
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(2018-07-05)This study focuses on the history, development, and structuring elements of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community. My research, grounded in Diana Taylor’s concept of scenarios and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, takes ...
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